ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the "international" in Bosnia and outlines the practices and ideas it entails. It highlights the demarcations between conservative and orthodox statebuilding methodologies. The chapter provides an overview of the international engagement in post-Dayton Bosnia more generally, before outlining the interventions of the United States (US), European governments and Russia. It discusses fault lines between international statebuilding actors and practices; it does so by touching upon the diverging notions pertaining to the role of international actors in the statebuilding process and on the different accounts of the Bosnian War. The chapter demonstrates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enlargement process and its presence in Bosnia, coupled with the interventionism of the Office of the High Representative (OHR), have alienated Russia. Pertinent to the discussion of multiplicity of statebuilding agendas and practices among international actors is the notion of international community.
